Meet the Nigerian Igbo Man Who Has Worked For Google and Facebook @Facebook

Chukwuemeka Afigbo is a hardworking Nigerian man who works
at Facebook as the Strategic Product Partnerships for Facebook in the
Sub-Saharan Africa.
You may think Afigbo got the opportunity to work at one of the biggest
technology companies in the world because he was just lucky or maybe because he
did not grow up in Nigeria. Before he became the Chukwuemeka Afigbo that we all
know and admire, Afigbo’s education was like every other Nigerian, he went to
Command Secondary School Abakaliki, Ebonyi state and Government Secondary
School Owerri, Imo state.

Chukwuemeka
Afigbo has worked with Google Africa In 1997, he went ahead to study Electrical
Engineering in the University of Nigeria, NSUKKA, Enugu state and graduated in
2002. He later went to Carleton University, Canada in 2006 for his Masters
degree in Engineering and Technology Innovations.

Chukwuemeka Afigbo with colleagues at Facebook Not long after he finished
his Masters in 2008, Google noticed his talents and gave him a job as the
Program Manager of Developer Relations in 2011.

At Google, Afigbo worked to develop the Sub Saharan African
(SSA) technology ecosystem. Chukwuemeka Afigbo with another Nigerian Aniedi
Udo-Obong who works at Facebook While at Google, the genius developed a project
called ‘Kesa’.

Because internet is unreliable and expensive in SSA, the project helped to
provide access to content developers around the region. Even with all his
success in the industry all Afigbo thinks about is how to develop technology in
Nigeria, during an interview with, Lawerence Moroney, Google Developer
Advocate, Afigbo expressed that he got the name Kesa from an Igbo word which
means distribute.

The tech genius started working for Facebook in 2015 and since working there
till now he has focused his work on helping developers in Africa and the Middle
East to succeed.

All Afigbo has ever done is to make Nigeria and the whole of Africa grow in
technology, he also played a huge part in Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Nigeria in
2016. Chukwuemeka Afigbo with Mark Zuckerberg in Nigeria Photo Credit:
Co-Creation Hub

Afigbo is not a genius who is all work and no play, he is
also a family man, he got married to his wife, Chioma Afigbo, in April, 2013
and they have a beautiful son together Obichukwu Afigbo.